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7. Setting Up Version Control

Wouter de Kort

(1)Ordina Microsoft Solutions, GRONINGEN, The Netherlands

In this chapter you’re going to learn what Visual Studio Team Services can do for you when it comes to storing your code in version control . You will learn what version control is and the two different flavors that VS Team Services offers: Team Foundation Version Control and Git. You will also learn some best practices for structuring your code through branches and how to take things a step further with feature toggles.

Introducing Version Control

Before I got into professional software development I did not know what version control was. I stored my ...

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